Since GI Joe figures came out, America has never NOT been in war.
We have over 500,000 troops in over 150 countries. We are an empire which is going broke and instead of worrying about our country, whose infrastructure is crumbling, we spend money building bombs, blowing up their bridges and roads, and then we give them money to fix them.
I am no fan of war whatsoever and even being a top candidate to be drafted, I supported Charlie Rangel’s call to bring back the draft. Everyone was up in arms when he called for it, without listening to his reasoning. His reason was that enough family’s are not personally effected by war, so if everyone had the possibility of being affected, people would question the war a lil more. I think we need to start talking about the draft again.
When you have a volunteer military, just like in every other job, the person is only “doing his/her job” and is not allowed to question anything because thats what they signed up for.
Any person who would argue to keep the military as is, to help create jobs, is the epitome of whats wrong with this country…. money and jobs before human lives.
On this veterans day, if we want to support the troops, lets start questioning these wars, motives, and our leaders, and bring the troops home… ALL of them.